Elijah Arnold (b. March 09, 1792, d. July 18, 1859)
Elijah Arnold3 was born March 09, 1792 in Virginia, and died July 18, 1859 in West River Twp.,Randolph Co., Indiana3. He married Rhoda Fife on September 30, 1824 in Wayne Co., IN3, daughter of John Fife.
Notes for Elijah Arnold: Elijah was a countefieter below are some of his legal woes.
Randolph County, Indiana Sheriff's Office Execution docket 1823-1841
1832 Sheriff Eli Edwards
July 25 Fi fa William Blunt Damage 14.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Interest .35 Elijah Arnold Cost 19.33 1836 Sheriff N. Garrett
April 25th Fi fa Elijah Arnold Debt 29.75 Not Repleviable Vs. Nathan Brewer 4 May 1836 .82 Thomas Malsley & Cost 9.84 ½ Thomas Jessop, their Replevin Bail
1837 Sept 13th State of Indiana Fine 1.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Cost 10.28 Fi fa Lewis Arnold & Elijah Arnold & his Paid 2.50 Replevin Bail
Sept 15th Alias Alijah Arnold Debt 29.75 Not Repleviable Vs. Interest 3.27 Nathan Brewer & Cost 7.15 ¼ Thomas Maulsbey & Thomas T. Jessop their Replevin bail
1838 Alias March 27th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 5.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Cost 53.56 ¾ Elijah Arnold
May 24th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 5.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Cost 55.97 ¾ Elijah Arnold
October 29th Elijah Arnold Debt 29.75 Not Repleviable Alias Vs. Damage 15.19 Plurial Nathan Brewer & Thomas Maulsby & Thomas Jessup their Replevin Bail
1840 Sheriff Robert Irvin
Jan 27th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Damage 22.61 ¼ Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole his Replevin Bail
27th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Damage 28.69 ¼ Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole his Replevin Bail
27th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Damage 26.42 ¼ Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole his Replevin Bail
27th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Damage 31.95 ¼ Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole his Replevin Bail
29th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Damage 27.15 ½ Elijah Arnold & David Moore his Replevin Bail
29th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Damage 33.08 ¼ Elijah Arnold & David Moore his Replevin Bail
29th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Damage 20.46 ¼ Elijah Arnold & David Moore his Replevin Bail
29th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Damage 38.57 Elijah Arnold & David Moore his Replevin Bail
Feb 14th Fi fa State of Indiana Fine 5.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Cost 57.35 Elijah Arnold
May 26th State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repleviable Vs. Cost 37.16 ¼ Lewis Arnold This execution is entitled to a credit of $16.78
26th State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Not Repeviable Vs. Cost 29.96 ½ Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole Credit
26th State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 33.64 Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole Credit
May 27th State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 33.72 Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole Credit
27th State of Indiana Fine 5.00 Vs. Cost 58.73 Elijah Arnold
27th State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 23.34 Elijah Arnold & David Moore his Replevin Bail Credit 16.00
27th State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 36.24 ½ Elijah Arnold & David Moore his Replevin Bail Credit 16.00
27th State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 46.73 Elijah Arnold & David Moore his Replevin Bail Credit 16.00
27th State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 30.18 Elijah Arnold & David Moore his Replevin Bail
1840
July 17th State of Indiana Fine 10.00 Vs. Cost 27.19 ¼ Elijah Arnold
21st State of Indiana Fine 15.00 Vs. Cost 19.16 ½ Elijah Arnold & David Moore
21st State of Indiana Fine 5.00 Vs. Cost 60.14 Elijah Arnold
21st State of Indiana Fine 10.00 Vs. Cost 28.60 ¼ Elijah Arnold
21st State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 39.36 ¼ Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole
21st State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 35.94 Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole
21st State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 32.26 ½ Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole
21st State of Indiana Fine 2.00 Vs. Cost 36.02 Lewis Arnold & Thomas Poole
Sept 17th State of Indiana Fine 10.00 Vs. Cost 29.98 ¼ Elijah Arnold
William Blunt Vs. Elijah Arnold 16 times.
*** David and Mary (Wilkins) Moore, natives of Ireland. The grandparents were Matthew and Sarah (McDowell) Moore, who removed from Delaware to Pennsylvania, later to Ohio, and in 1817 to Wayne County, Ind. David and Mary Moore spent their last days in Wayne County. The family was all members of the Society of Friends. The father was a blacksmith by trade and in politics was a stanch republican.
Taken from page 57 History of Randolph County 1882… February, 1826, full bench. Two days, eight or ten cases. August,- 1826. Amos Lane, Prosecutor, full bench. Three days, nine pages of record. Elijah Arnold's name appears for the first time on the record (to keep the peace). It appears often after this, for, perhaps, twenty-five years. He has been dead some years. He was a wild, troublesome, reckless man. He was reckoned to belong to a gang of counterfeiters, thieves, etc., with headquarters in the "fallen timbers" in the south part of the county. Old residents of that region are full of tales of the reckless mischief of Arnold and his comrades in daring and crime. The gang was broken up after a long time.
Page 391in the History of Randolph Co.1882 gives this account West River Township, as also Nettle Creek, was in 1824 the scene of a most terrific tornado, which tore and twisted the giant forest trees for miles into inextricable confusion. This immense mass of timber lay for a decade or less upon the surface of the ground, and presented a literally impassable barrier. The fallen timber furnished in fact abundant opportunities for concealment, and in some cases fugitive slaves hid themselves in its coverts from their pursuers. In one instance, a man-bunter, baffled of his prey by this impregnable refuge, asked one of the old Abolitionists how far the fallen timber reached. The sturdy pioneer, determined both to keep the truth on his side and to mystify his questioner, replied: "Four or five miles west, and how far Ohio I never heard." The fact hidden beneath this verbiage that the fallen timber extended perhaps a mile east, and to the Ohio line was fifteen or twenty miles. But the slave catcher never got any runaways out from that awful tangled, twisted, piled-up mass of tree trunks and brush and fresh-grown shrubs all heaped into one vast untraceable labyrinth of mystery This same gang of man-hunters (for there were several) threatened to come and clean out that terrible place was the reply; "we wish you would; it ought to be away, none here has ever had the courage to begin the work." The villains swore awhile and cursed the Abolitionists, and then they let the fallen timber stay where it was, as other people before them had done. The jungle is said moreover to have been employed also as a den for a gang of robbers and counterfeiters, whose operations caused much trouble. some arrests and several trials in the attempt to rout the pestilent gang from the county. One party is stated to have been in so desperate a pinch upon trial for passing counterfeit money, that, on asking to let him see the bill a moment, it was handed to him, when quick as a flash, he swallowed the bank note, and the case against him had to be dropped, for the evidence had gone down his throat. Upon the court record the name of this very man appears coupled with a criminal charge, and upon that entry Mr. Smith makes stautially this comment: "Here is the first appearance of this name in the court records of Randolph, but not by any means the last, for it adorns (or otherwise) these pages off and on for at least twenty-five years to come." Some old men tell tales, not needful to repeat at length, of charges and. arrests and attempts at rescue, of prominent names coupled with rumors of forgery and counterfeiting, of surmises against residents of the region for the concealment of the haunts and the implements of crime among the secret coverts afforded by the fallen timber. But the gangs, if there were any, are long ago scattered, and the guilty parties, if there were such, have gone to meet the Judge of the living and the dead, and no special good could arise from unearthing the ancient charges made; and the ugly surmises indulged in, and the evil rumors afloat upon the air, against any or all the parties supposed or even known to have belonged to these ancient gangs of men in league for unlawful purposes. God is just; let Him administer the penalty for crime, if any there may have been, in His own appointed way. Let not the obloquy existing against men in those wild and uncouth times be revived or renewed against their relations and descendants, now free from reproach and innocent of evil intent or conduct.
REMINISCENCES Page 101, The mill was owned by Nathan Proctor. Nathan Proctor, Elijah Arnold and others were charged with counterfeiting, thieving, etc. They were said to have a "rendezvous " in the "fallen timber." Some were convicted, and the gang was broken up at last. One of them, arrested for passing a counterfeit bill, asking to see the bill, took it and swallowed it. (Story Told by John Key)
He and his wife are buried in Economy cemetery. His tombstone listing his date of death and age as 68 years 4 months 9 days. He went by an alias of Alijah at one time
From Will Moistner You sent me an e-mail last year on the Moister/Arnold I have been working on it for over a year and there was a few mistakes on yours and mine. Elijah Arnold and Rhoda Fife had 2 boys and 3 girls that I can find. They were William, Matthew, Mariah, Sarah and Jane. Now Daniel Married Mariah Phillip married Sarah and Jane married Richard Colter. Now on Phillip and Sarah had 8 children born from 1849 to 1874. Now Phillip did not have a second wife. Confirmation is as follows: 1850 census West River, Randolph County, Indiana 1860 census Nettle Creek, Randolph County, Indiana, name miss spelt. page 188 house 1105 family 1091. They have Phillp's last name spelt Miss?????. 1870 census Nettle Creek, Randolph County, Indiana Between 1870 and 1874 Phillip died as Sarah remarried on 3 Oct 1874 to an Emberson Street in Randolph County. But in the 1880 census Sarah is not listed with him in Bear Creek, Jay County, Indiana Page 394B. But I found Sarah in West River, Randolph County Indiana, Page 8 family 136. Daniel and Phillip's father is Christian Moister who came from Germany between 1823 and 1828. There is 4 ways that the name is spelt. Moister, Moistner, Moyster, Moystner. And everyone is related to the Arnolds through Mariah or Sarah. Mariah died in 1914 If there is any questions please let me know and I will try to answer them.
Best Regards
Will Moistner
Elijah divided his 400 acres of land 40 to each of his children except William who took instead a team of horses because he was a teamster.
There is an Elijah listed in Lynchbug City Lynchburg Va in 1910 census.
Phil,
I don't know if you have this info or not, so figured I would send it on to you just in case.
I just ordered copies of all the Mortality Schedules for Randolph County, and got them in the mail today.
I was scanning the 1860 index and found the following.
West River Township Name of person who died during the year ending 1st June, 1860 Name: Elijah Arnold Age:71 Sex: Male Married Born in South Carolina Died in July Occupation: Farmer Cause of Death: Inflammatory Rheumatism Number of Days ILL: 3
I was thinking most people have him born in Kentucky. Thought this might be another lead on where he was born.
The Mortality schedule is for the year beginning June 1 1859 to June 1 1860. It lists anyone who died between that time frame. It said he died in July 1859. So I figured it was him.
Gina
Randolph County. Page 57 August, 1826. Amos Lane, Prosecutor, full bench. Three days, nine pages of record. Elijah Arnold's name appears for the first time on the record (to keep the peace). It appears often after this, for, perhaps, twenty-five years. He has been dead some years. He was a wild, troublesome, reckless man. He was reckoned to belong to a gang of counterfeiters, thieves, etc., with headquarters in the "fallen timber" in the south part of the county. Old residents of that region are full of tales of the reckless mischief of Arnold and his comrades in daring and crime. The gang was broken up after a long time.
REMINISCENCES Page 101, The mill was owned by Nathan Proctor. Nathan Proctor, Elijah Arnold and others were charged with counterfeiting, thieving, etc. They were said to have a "rendezvous " in the "fallen timber." Some were convicted, and the gang was broken up at last. One of them, arrested for passing a counterfeit bill, asking to see the bill, took it and swallowed it. (Story Told by John Key)
1850 Randolph County, West River Township, Indiana Census Page 341(183/1860) Nov. 15, 1850 Elijah Arnold 58 M Farmer 4000 VA Rhoda " " 42 F Tenn Jane " " 18 F Ind Leva " " 16 F Ind Oliver " " 14 M Ind Attended School Nancy " " 12 F Ind Attended School Leonana " 10 F Ind Attended School Mary E. " 7 F Ind Attended School William " 5 M Ind Attended School Matthew " 3 M Ind The family was listed next to Daniel & Mariah Moister.
1840 Randolph County, West River Township, Indiana Census Free White Persons Elijah Arnold Head of Household 1 Male under 5, Elijah is not marked, he would have been between 40-50 2 Females under 5, 2 Females 5-10, 3 Females 10-15, 1 Female 30-40.
More About Elijah Arnold and Rhoda Fife: Marriage: Sep 30, 1824, Wayne County, Indiana.50
Marriage Notes for Elijah Arnold and Rhoda Fife: Rhoda Fife married Elijah Arnold on 1824-09-30. (Book ZZ ; Page 235)
Rhoda Fife married Elijah Arnold on 1824-09-30. (Book A ; Page 87)
Children of Elijah Arnold and Rhoda Fife are: +Sophia Arnold, b. 1826, Indiana, d. Mar 13, 1871, Jay County, Indiana. +Mariah Arnold, b. 1828, d. 1914, Randolph County, Indiana. +Sarah Arnold, b. 1830, Indiana, d. date unknown. Jane Arnold, b. 1832, d. date unknown. Laura Arnold, b. 1834, Indiana, d. date unknown. +Oliver Arnold, b. 1836, Indiana, d. date unknown. Nancy Arnold, b. 1838, d. date unknown. Leona Arnold, b. 1840, d. date unknown. Mary Ellen Arnold, b. 1843, d. date unknown. William Arnold, b. 1845, d. date unknown. Matthew Arnold, b. 1847, d. date unknown.
This could be a possible Family Link Francis ARNOLD, Jr. – b. before 1742. Married Candace KENT of Halifax Co., VA (daughter of Robert and Mary Kent). Moved to Randolph Co., NC by 1779, then South Carolina and finally to Bedford County, Tennessee where he died. Owned property near his brothers William and John Arnold on the waters of the Uwharrie River in Western Randolph County, NC. Is found on the 1790 Randolph Co., NC Census, line 690, with two males over 16 yrs. old, three males under 16, four females and two slaves.
1787 June. Presentment against William Baily on a charge of cohabitation with one Mary Jorda[n]; witness: Godfrey Ridge, Francis Arnold, Britain Fuller. (src. RECORDS OF CODY & RIDGE FAMILIES IN RANDOLPH-ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA)
1. Francis ARNOLD – b. January 1, 1758 Spotsylvania Co., VA; d. February 1830 White Co., TN (src. LDS LIBRARY FILM NO. 459111). Married Elizabeth PARKER August 5, 1790 Greenville Co., SC. Is found in Pendleton District (now Oconee Co., SC) in 1815 along Toxaway Creek.
Date: 1798/12/03 - Description: DOBSON, HENRY, PLAT FOR 115 ACRES ON WEST SIDE OF TOXAWAY CREEK, PENDLETON COUNTY, WASHINGTON DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY JOHN CLARKE KILPATRICK. Names Indexed: DOBSON, HENRY / KILPATRICK, JOHN CLARKE / BLAIR, JAMES / PINCKNEY, CHARLES / ARNOLD, FRANCIS. Locations: TOXAWAY CREEK / CHAUGA RIVER / TUGALOO RIVER / PENDLETON CO / WASHINGTON DISTRICT (src. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY, Series S213192, Vol. 37, pg. 162, Item #1)
Date: 1815/11/27 - BLAIR, JAMES, PLAT FOR 297 ACRES ON TOXAWAY CREEK, PENDLETON DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY JOHN CLARKE KILPATRICK. Names Indexed: BLAIR, JAMES / KILPATRICK, JOHN CLARKE / TREMMIER, OBEDIAH / ARNOLD, FRANCIS. Locations: TOXAWAY CREEK / CHAUGA RIVER / TUGALOO RIVER / PENDLETON DISTRICT (src. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY, Series S213192, Vol. 44, pg. 10, Item #1)
Greenville Co., SC. Summary of Pension Application of Francis Arnold. #W106. Application was made while he was living in White Co., Tenn. Sep. 12, 1818, age 62. He was born Jan. 1758 in Spotsylvania Co., VA., enlisted in Newmarket, Spotsylvania Co., early in 1777 and was discharged sometime in 1780 after 3 years service. In 1796 he resided in Pendleton District, S.C. and after 1810 he moved to what later became White Co. Tenn. He married Elizabeth Parker on Aug. 5, 1790 in Greenville District, SC. She was born Dec. 23, 1775. He died in White County on Feb. 5, 1830 or 1831 (both years given in widow’s application papers). She survived him and applied for pension in 1840 while residing in White County. She was living with her son, Peter Arnold, in Coffee Co. in 1851, and she died prior to March 1853. Francis and Elizabeth Arnold had 14 children. Those named in the application papers: William b. 1791; Peter, the 7th child, b. 1803; Colberd, the 8th child, b. 1807; Barbara b. Ca. 1809 (age 17 in 1826); Samuel D. B. 1811; Hayes, whose birth is not given (was administrator). (src. ARNOLD FAMILY ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTH VOL. II, pg. 217)
1. William D. ARNOLD – b. June 20, 1791 (src. LDS LIBRARY FILM NO. 459111)
2. Unknown ARNOLD –
3. Unknown ARNOLD –
4. Unknown ARNOLD –
5. Unknown ARNOLD –
6. Unknown ARNOLD –
7. Peter ARNOLD – b. September 28, 1803 South Carolina (src. ARNOLD FAMILY ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTH, VOL. II, pg. 232)
More About Elijah Arnold: Burial: Unknown, Economy Cemetery, Economy, Indiana. Record Change: August 06, 19993
More About Elijah Arnold and Rhoda Fife: Marriage: September 30, 1824, Wayne Co., IN.3
Children of Elijah Arnold and Rhoda Fife are:
+Sophia Arnold, b. 1826, d. March 13, 1871, Jay County, Indiana.
+Mariah Arnold, b. June 28, 1828, Indiana, d. 1914, Indiana.
+Sarah Arnold, b. 1830, Indiana, d. March 13, 1871.
Elijah Arnold (b. March 09, 1792, d. July 18, 1859)
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